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Spirituals: The Power of Community and Music (Part 2)


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Research: 


African American Song 


Pre-Civil War African-American Slavery 


African American Spirituals 


The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States 


Traditional Work Songs 


McIntosh County Shouters, “Move, Daniel” 


The McIntosh County Shouters 


Plantation Dance Ring ShoutNat Turner (1800-1831) 


Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music


The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia 


Cultural Codes: Makings of a Black Music Philosophy


Our History – Fisk Jubilee Singers 


Overseer And Driver 


Fisk Jubilee Singers 


The Soundtrack of the George Floyd Protests 


Hip-hop is the soundtrack to Black Lives Matter protests, continuing a tradition that dates back to the blues 


Music: 


“Judgement Day Outside My Door” by Lost Ghosts 


Early in the Mornin’” performed by Unidentified performers at State Penitentiary, Camp #10, Parchman, Mississippi (Accessed by the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox) 


Hoe Emma Hoe” performed by Larry Earl Jr., Christina Lane and Willie Wright 


Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child” performed by Hope Foye 


Steal Away” performed by the Fisk Jubilee Singers 


Go down, Moses” performed by Oral Moses


“Deshacer”  by Azteca X 


“Testimony” by Cast of Characters 


“Against the Clock” by Nu Alkemi$t 


“Tomorrow Things” by GLASWING 


Go Down Moses” performed by Louis Armstrong with the Sy Oliver Choir and The All Stars 


Keep Your Hand on the Plow” performed by Mahalia Jackson 


Sound of Da Police”, by KRS ONE 


“Life in Binary” by Falls 


“Constellations” by Chelsea McGough 

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